‘ Horatio J. Kookaburra Following 7016. A S70B2 Seahawk trailed a giant RAN Ensign over the Nu-Ship HOBART III, as the lead ship for the Navy’s new Air Warfare Destroyer squadron approached her home port at Fleet Base East for the first time in early August 2017. The first RAN ship with Aegis Combat SystemContinue reading “Aug 9, 2017: to be commissioned in September, the first of the RAN’s new AWDs, HOBART III, approaches Sydney Harbour for the first time – LSIS Tom Gibson.”
Monthly Archives: October 2020
HMAS Melbourne at Garden Island Sydney – Divisions?
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HMCS Regina was a Royal Canadian Navy revised Flower-class corvette which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Regina, Saskatchewan.
HMCS Regina (K234) War service After commissioning and workups, Regina was assigned to the Western Local Escort Force (WLEF) in mid-March. She remained with them until September 1942. On 3 July 1942 Regina rescued 25 survivors of the American merchant SS Alexander Macomb which was sunk east of Cape Cod.[9] In September she wasContinue reading “HMCS Regina was a Royal Canadian Navy revised Flower-class corvette which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Regina, Saskatchewan.”
HMCS Louisburg was a Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought mainly as an ocean escort during the Battle of the Atlantic. She was sunk in 1943. She was named for Louisburg, Nova Scotia.
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Britain’s Cold War-Era Monster Destroyer Has Finally Been Retired After 47 years of Royal Navy service, the flag has finally been lowered aboard the destroyer HMS Bristol. BYTHOMAS NEWDICKOCTOBER 28, 2020
HMS Bristol (D23), Royal Navy destroyer HMS Bristol (D23), Royal Navy destroyer Cold War military history is full of “might-have-beens,” with canceled projects ranging from nuclear-reactor-juggling tracked mecha-robots, to electron guns that would generate invisible radar-absorbing fields around spyplanes, to name just two. When it comes to the U.K. Royal Navy, this includes its lone TypeContinue reading “Britain’s Cold War-Era Monster Destroyer Has Finally Been Retired After 47 years of Royal Navy service, the flag has finally been lowered aboard the destroyer HMS Bristol. BYTHOMAS NEWDICKOCTOBER 28, 2020”
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